Debut Buddies

Brian Dickson (Poet, Professor) returns to face John, Shannon, and first time guest Marc Hughes (Sake Brewer, DJ, Spoonbender) on an episode about Kid Stuff. Topics include: Rumspringa, The Banana Splits, Bildungsroman, Billy the Kid and more. Plus, a new game called Goofus and Gallant. Hey, wait a minute, does Shannon know another famous person? And is there anything Marc DOESN'T KNOW? Listen to...

It's a hodge podge of the hellish and heavenly this week! Joining John and Shannon are guests Dr. Melati Stevens (Herb + Legend, immortality) and Rev. Dr. William Ferguson (ninja, wizard, diminutive food item connoisseur). They'll talk about Way of the Dragon, Holy Rollers, Hypertrichosis, Trogdor the Burninator, Anton LaVey and more. Plus: There's A F##king Dragon On Your Roof! And Pomme ou pomme...

We are, sadly, sans John, this week. So, wandering wizard and mall fashion show opening band member, Kate Binversie, joins geek of all trades, and armchair anthropologist, Andrea King on the show this week. They battle usual guest Shannon Paige over a list of topics pertaining to the Mind and Body (and a little Spirit, too), including: DSM-V, Momo Challenge, Keto Crotch, Cold Reading, the Cake Bos...

"Is THIS the end of Zombie Shakespeare!?" (That's a classic Simpsons quote... and to answer the question: Yes. Yes, it is.) Appearing this week to match brains with John and Shannon is playwright, and digital marketer Jeff Wolf (jeffreywolfplays.com). Nate's guests "trod the boards" over a series of stage and screen themed topics including: Brechtian Theatre, Method Acting, Found Footage, the Hous...

Special guest Katie Cowell (copywriter, swing dancer, urban history enthusiast, small Airbnb empress) joins us with news of BrassTaxes.com, a business that helps creatives and freelancers take the OUCH out of filing. Katie duels John and Shannon on a show of CRIES and CRYS over topics like Crime and Punishment, Cryptozoology, Cry Baby (1990), the Cryptkeeper, and Cryptography. We all find out that...

When Shannon's away... we get some extra specials guests! Facing John on this week's show, are returning guest Eric Palencia, family lawyer and artist Maha Kamal, and poet and CU lecturer Jenny Cookson. Topics include: Reality Therapy, Barn Burners, the Blue People of Kentucky, the Teapot Dome Scandal and more, plus the usual fun of Pomme ou pomme de terre and Original Sketch. But things get reall...

Gardener, businesswoman, butcher, teacher... and JOHN'S SISTER (WHAAAAA!!??), Helen Peros, is our special guest for an episode about Ancient Astronauts, Echolocation, the Iron Curtain, and Harlequin Romance. We're all living High on the Hog in this one! There's Hall or Oates, and Pomme ou pomme de terre, plus Nate premieres a new game: Original Sketch, that tests his guests improv skills. Follow t...

Prepare to meat your match! This week we welcome special guests The Steak King, himself, Paul Baldwin (@thesteakking on Insta, facebook.com/thesteakking), and the Steak Queen, herself, Barb Baldwin, to grill or be grilled with John and Shannon. We hear the origin of the Steak King, then Nate cooks up a list of savory topics including The Mythic and Untrue Etymology of Sirloin, Trump Steaks, Stakeo...

Becca Lipman returns to the show, to defend her first-appearance victory. She, Shannon, and John dabble in topics ranging from Transformers (1986) to Haitian Voudu to Missing White Woman Syndrome to the Taco Cleanse. There's Pomme ou Pomme de Terre, Hall or Oates, and a bonus question impression of a wealthy dowager... and then we talk about the at-the-time soon-to-be-played Super Bowl... but that...

Writer of the Burning Metronome comic series, the "What'd I Miss?" comic in the Colorado Sun, and host of Mother F**ker in a Cape podcast, R Alan Brooks, guests this week! Alan, John, and Shannon tackle "Well... Actually," Pomme ou pomme de terre, and a list of bloody good topics including the myth of Welsh Corgis, the Denver Spider Man, Mason-Dixon Line, Pro Wrestling Face, an...

Award winning manager of International Visitor and Professional Exchange Programs at World Denver, and Regis University admissions staff, Dan Wienecke is on the show this week! He discusses short-term swimwear, and then challenges John and Shannon on topics including Public Access Television, Dungeons and Dragons, Leaves of Grass, Weather Underground, Hacienda Skilled Nursing Facility Birth, Manti...

A bagel makes an appearance in the second edition of Pomme ou pomme de terre, and Nate, John, and Shannon welcome special guest Sara Smith (advertiser / CU Boulder Faculty) to talk about the Noble Eightfold Path, Rocco the British Parrot, Necropants, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and the Waffle House Index. Plus, things get a little racy when they talk about Globish. There's even a new game:...

We start 2019 with an episode of A Vague Idea that's a real barn burner! With no special guest John and Shannon get gritty in a game decided by 1/10th of a point!!! We talk about the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act (2018), the Puppybowl, the $325,000 Hamburger, Jonestown, and more. PLUS: Nate has a new game for us... "Pomme ou Pomme de Terre?" Have ye what it takes to listeneth to th...

How dare you bring Tofurkey here! THIS is a meat house! The inimitable Micah White (Geeks Who Drink, Denver Center for the Performing Arts) answers the call to A Vague Idea this week! He battles Shannon and John over topics like H.R. Giger, H.R. Pufnstuf, the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, Baby Powder, and Andreas Hvid's Great Pyramid Porn. PLUS: Sean Connery accents! This episode is a HOOT! In this...

On a very special holiday episode, Nate gets his actual family to find out if they have a vague idea about a list of topics from Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future. It's a real Dickensian situation!!! His wife Jenny, sister Sylvia, stepmom Yolanda, father Tom, and brother-in-law Taylor throw back some cheer and talk about the Yule Cat, Wassailing, Good King Wenceslas, the Star...

On our 10th episode (can you believe we made it this far?), John and Shannon face off against special guests, Steno proprietor Rex Roberts (Biking for Baseball, Defenestrate), and Eric Palencia (Steno, Defenestrate) in a war of wills! Will they have a vague idea about Dane Best's Snowball Fight? The Tragedy of the Commons? Amazon's Bear Spray Incident? Maybe they know about the Theremin, or Michae...

Recorded LIVE from Steno, this week John and Shannon battle special guest "Quiz Daddy" Dave DeNovellis (Geeks Who Drink, The Government). We talk about Knickers the Australian Cow, Movies based on Board Games, Pioneer Hugh Glass, Colorado 14ers, and for the first time Nate's slipped a super secret B-B-B-B-Bonus Question into the mix that makes everyone do their best Pacino Lear. Sound am...

Can you believe John let us into his home? This week John, returning guest Kharis Eppstein, and new guest Wendy Littlepage (Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys) go head-to-head-to-head on topics such as Kim Jong-un's Peace Puppies, Operation Snowcap, Hands Across America, "Chasing the Dragon", the North Sentinel Island Missionary, and Dr. Seuss books... Would you listen in a boat...

Boy howdy, this is a big one! Shannon, John, and I are joined by returning guest Brice Maiurro (South Broadway Ghost Society), and first-timers Josh Mattison (Denver Orbit podcast), Rachel Trignano (Write Club Denver), and Cory Byrom (Write Club Denver). In a quest to win The Floppy Disc from 1995's THE NET Starring Sandra Bullock Technological Foresight Award, these remarkable contestants clash m...

This week, backed by the loudest music the Snug has to offer, we're joined by special guest, auditor, Kharis Eppstein to yell about (and sing about) topics like Monorail, Stan Lee (RIP), the Dutch man who is suing to lower his age, flash fiction, and a sidebar on Child Kibble. The sound... Oh, the sound! It's a little rough this week. Sorry! We had fun anyway, and so can you! Want to name the vict...

She's back Shan Fans, and she's letting the Podcast RECORD INSIDE THE HOUSE. We're not at the Snug this week, and in addition to usual guest John Peros (and the aformentioned Shan), we welcome poet, professor, and point guard Brian Dickson to the program. It gets a little nutty this week. There's a dog (Xander)! And topics include Kanye West's recent politics, Charles Manson and the Beach Boys (du...

John faces off against special guests Becca Lipman and Courtney Law for our first listener-submitted trophy, the Victors Chalice of Surely Affirmative Rogers. (Thanks, Rex!) This episode is Shannon-free as she battles the ancient forces of a Mummy's Curse. Topics include the 14th Amendment, songs by the band Bush, Fraggle Rock and Alewives. And Nate tries to orchestrate a late tie score, leading t...

In this episode that considers what a mirror universe Nate might be like, we talk about Social Security, Venom, and the Lacroix fizzy water poison controversy with guests Eric Berkemeyer (Denver Art Museum) and Brice Maiurro (Punketry; South Broadway Ghost Society). Brice makes up a guy named Sonny Mann as creator of the DIY Punk Ethic, and we all learn a very special lesson about fibbing on A Vag...

On episode two, we're back and similarly as better than ever as we were in the first episode, but MORE. Topics for John and Shannon include the UN Climate Report, Halloween (film), New Wave music, A Star Is Born and some other things about which they both have at least a vague idea... Kinda. Sorta. Plus, John goes deep on the National Weather Service! And Shannon knows someone who allegedly ran of...

A Vague Idea is a pseudo-game show podcast hosted by Nate Ragolia with Shannon Paige and John Peros. On each episode, guests discuss a list of topics, claiming if they KNOW IT, KINDA GET IT, or only have A VAGUE IDEA, and winning "points". After each topic has been covered, a winner is crowned... but for how long? On the inaugural episode, set to the sounds of playoff baseball, we discus...